I am saddened to think that reasearch (with no profit attached) can be halted this way. If the RIAA had even the slightest trace of intelligence, I'd think they'd support such public research so that they can improve their own products, unless of course they knew their watermark was bogus in the first place. Hey, that sounds a little like fraud to me...
Flipping through my most recent Crutchfields catalog I noticed that a few DVDs claim to read CD-R or CD-RW, but most don't mention it. My $.02 is that they don't care about copying enough to engineer specifically either way. Whether a unit can read CD-Rs is probably merely an artifact of the laser mechanism.
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I am saddened to think that reasearch (with no profit attached) can be halted this way. If the RIAA had even the slightest trace of intelligence, I'd think they'd support such public research so that they can improve their own products, unless of course they knew their watermark was bogus in the first place. Hey, that sounds a little like fraud to me...
Flipping through my most recent Crutchfields catalog I noticed that a few DVDs claim to read CD-R or CD-RW, but most don't mention it. My $.02 is that they don't care about copying enough to engineer specifically either way. Whether a unit can read CD-Rs is probably merely an artifact of the laser mechanism.